Kiani
Kiani is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199650 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1987
- 1,295people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,265 girls have been named Kiani in the United States since 1987, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 50 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 1990s alone account for 31%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 30 boys have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
By decade
In 1996, its biggest year
Kiani was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Kiani
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cashmerepeak 1995
- Devynpeak 2000
- Kiarapeak 1999
- Zeinabpeak 1999
- Amairanipeak 1994
- Imanpeak 1996
- Imanipeak 1998
- Maireadpeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.